There With The Grace of God…

The good news is that Rod Dreher is blogging again, this time at the American Conservative; the sad news is that his sister Ruthie, pictured above with her daughter Claire, has just been killed by cancer. Rod – we email-know one another and have at least one good friend in common – has been blogging about the reaction to his sister’s death. It is, as it must be, emotional, passionate stuff.

There’s no pressing need for me to write about this, I guess, save that blogging is most often a means of expressing frustration or unhappiness or outrage and it is not often that we – that is, people who generally write about politics or culture – pause to reflect on the greater issues, far less note how often humanity or decency prevails in even the direst personal circumstances. I commend Rod’s posts here, here, here and here to you.

This passage was especially striking:

Everybody’s sad, and tired, but doing okay.